The Dečani Monastery

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Cover Contents Foreword The history and antiquities of the monastery The founding of the monastery The construction of the church and monastery Saint Stefan Dečanski The adorning of the church The sacred objects of Dečani Icons Books Liturgical vessels, linens and vestments In a country of a different religion Among their own kin? The architecture of the monastic settlement The original monastery complex Later restorations of the monastery buildings The architecture of the katholikon Introduction and historiography The ground plan and structure The space and its decoration Exterior design Masonry techniques and materials Proportions Secondary architectural elements Portals Windows Flooring Liturgical furnishings Liturgical layout The origins of the architectural design Models for the exterior design The structure of portals and windows and the origins of their forms The designer of the architectural project and the master builder of the Church of the Ascension of Christ The sculpture of the catholicon The arrangement of sculptural images The iconography of sculptural images The composition and form of sculptural motifs The stylistic features of the Dečani sculpture and their models The frescoes of the Dečani church When were the frescoes painted The main themes and their arrangement Almighty God, the Pantokrator The creation of humankind, and its disobedience of God’s laws The announcement of salvation The incarnation of Christ Christ’s act of salvation on Earth Founding of a new Church Establishing and spreading the Church The community of the saints and the faithful The Serbs in the communion of the elect Christ’s second coming Iconography and art The painters The Dečani frescos in their own time and ours Indices Topographic index Index of persons Iconographic index